Word: cheapness
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...this new and drastic rule, Mr. Forbes made three exceptions. New Zealand being a pastoral country, needs plenty of rubber boots and wire. Also she is not averse to buying paper cheap from Canada's famed mills. Therefore all kinds of Canadian rubber boots, Canadian wire of certain kinds, and Canadian paper of certain types will continue to enter New Zealand by "imperial preference...
...Howland Robinson of New Bedford, Mass., she inherited nine million dollars from her father, a ship-owning Quaker. She astonished her contemporaries first by her penny-pinching, next by her marriage at 33 to "Spendthrift Green" who riotously squandered a million dollars of his own and died in a cheap hotel room paid for by his wife. Hetty Green raised a son and daughter, multiplied her nine million into 67, and in her last days was a strange old body in odd cloaks and shawls who lived in cheap flats with a Skye terrier named Dewey...
...Buchmanism at first hand had they come. They found it exuberant, direct, its testimonies as heartfelt as those heard in oldtime Bowery missions, only here the witnesses were young people of culture and refinement? college students, city preachers, businessmen, a polo player, a Junior Leaguer?a group which no cheap or sexy revivalism could have...
Firmly do U. S. churchmen, Jewish leaders above all, cling to a privilege accorded them under the 18th amendment: the use of authentic, alcoholic wine for their sacraments. On the Continent wines are cheap, their sale unrestricted, their use in churches unchallenged. But in Scotland, home of many a fine whiskey, there are no indigenous wines and' a stiff duty is added to the cost of those imported. The Church of Scotland at its General Assembly last week passed a resolution advocating the use of nonalcoholic wines in Holy Communion...
...Great Britain on his South American tour (TIME, Jan. 26, et seq.), made two speeches, one in Manchester and one in London last week, both to bigwigs. His advice, painful to British ears but received with loyal cheers, may be summed up in eight words: Be bright, be cheap, be American or German...